Eisenstein

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich 1898-1948. Soviet filmmaker considered among the most influential directors in the history of motion pictures. His films include Potemkin (1925) and Alexander Nevsky (1938), his first film with sound.

CF. ultra-nationalists in any culture wallowing in the passion of some past wrong they suffered, such as Eisenstein's drama Alexander Nevsky 1938; ironically, the next year the USSR signed a nonaggression pact, and in 1941 actual German atrocities against Russians surpassed those depicted in the movie.

So, alongside the First and Fifth Symphonies, the Cinderella ballet and the Lieutenant Kijé film score is work such as the last two piano concertos, the Second and Sixth Symphonies, and a choral piece arranged from Prokofiev's score for Eisenstein's Ivan The Terrible.

This was stuffed to the gills with archive footage of more than a century's worth of the novels' translations to screen and examined whether there is, as director Sergei Eisenstein once contended, an essentially filmic quality to the man's work that makes him such a lure to writers, directors and actors.